Quebec journalist and author Gil Courtemanche, who documented the 1994 Rwandan genocide, has died of cancer, his editor said Friday. He was 68.
Courtemanche had long worked at public broadcaster Radio-Canada and wrote for the Montreal French-language daily Le Devoir until very recently.
His first novel, "A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali," was published in 2000. It has been translated into 23 languages and in 2006 was made into a movie, "A Sunday in Kigali," directed by Robert Favreau.
His last novel, "I do not want to die alone," about a man who learns he has cancer the same week his wife leaves him, was released in May 2010.
Source: AFP Global Edition
